Karl Borch Lecture 2011

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Karl Borch Lecture 2011

The Karl Borch Lecture is an annual lecture held by world-class scholars on a current research topic.

The Karl Borch Lecture Series was established in 2002 by the Department, in honor of Borch.The lecture is on a current research topic and given by distinguished scholars, whose research capture the pioneering spirit of Karl Borch, but not necessarily his fields of research in a narrow sense.

Karl H. Borch was a professor at NHH between 1963 and 1986, and is considered one of the founders of economics of uncertainty, counting 150 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings, and three books.

John Y. Campbell

John Y. Campbell is the Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

He has published over 80 articles on various aspects of finance and macroeconomics, including fixed-income securities, equity valuation, and portfolio choice - and several books.

Campbell served as President of the American Finance Association in 2005 and as President of the International Atlantic Economic Society in 2009.

He is a Research Associate and former Director of the Program in Asset Pricing at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Maastricht, the University of Paris Dauphine, and Copenhagen Business School. In 2005, he received the Graham and Dodd Award.